Have you noticed there are all kinds of questions? There are silly questions and there are great questions. There was a comedian who was riding a subway into work. He had finished reading the morning paper and was saving it to bring to his friends at work.

“How do you save a newspaper on the subway?” he asks. You sit on it. 

A new commuter came on the subway, saw the newspaper that the comedian was sitting on and asked, “Are you reading that paper?”  The comedian stood up, turned the page, sat down on the paper again and answered, “Yes.”

That was a silly question. There are other questions that are great questions.

Charles “Chic” Thompson in his book, What a Great Idea! tells the story of a question that the president of Corning Glass Works once asked. This one question was an exceedin…